to be literature," says Mr. Howells, "I disabled its profession, and possibly from this habit, now inveterate with me, I am never quite sure of life unless I find literature in it." Needless to say, Mr. Howells has found literature in a great variety of themes that to the ordinary man partake but slightly of this quality. The beauty of the present volume of essays is that it interprets for this materialistic age this literature in everyday life. Such topics as "The Man of Letters as a Man of Business;" "Confessions of a Summer Colonist;" "The Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor;" "A Circus in the Suburbs;" "The Beach at Rockaway;" "The Horse Show," and "The Problem of the Summer, "-little as they seem to offer in the way of literary suggestion,-in the hands of Mr. Howells remind us that the vocation of the essayist is not yet a lost art among us, and recall some of the most characteristic work of George William Curtis and Charles Dudley Warner.

Among the English essay-writers of our day, none is welcomed by a larger public than Mr. Austin Dobson. In connection with the second series of his "Miscellanies" (Dodd, Mead & Co.), there appear various "Occasional Verses and Inscriptions," for the writing of which Mr. Dobson has a unique gift. In the essays themselves, the chief topics discussed are "Mrs. Woffington," "The 'Grub Street' of the Arts," "The Story of the 'Spectator,"" and "" The Covent-Garden Journal," and there is also a paper of special interest to all students of Izaak Walton on certain quotations from the "Angler."

tury," have been treated by the "Spectator" in his genial and sagacious fashion. There has been much guessing, by the way, for many years, as to the "Spectator's " identity, and rumor has more than once pluralized him; but the public seems as much in the dark as ever as to this interesting literary problem.

"Under the Trees" (Dodd, Mead & Co.) is the title of a beautifully illustrated volume of essays on outdoor topics by Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie. Within a comparatively few years, Mr. Mabie has come to occupy a foremost place among American critics and essayists. A preeminent sanity of judgment and a constant devotion to the things that are most "worth while" in our modern life and letters characterize all his work. Let not the matter-of-fact reader mistake Mr. Alfred Austin's "Haunts of Ancient Peace" (Macmillan) for

a guide-book to rural England. Mr. Austin's descriptions of the English countryside are bright, but elusive. Few travelers, we imagine, could identify more than one or two of the regions mentioned,and yet, in a subtle way, the poet interprets for us the charm of old English country-seats, and we are content to listen to the colloquy with Veronica and Lamia that began in those earlier books, "In Veronica's Garden," and "Lamia's Winter-Quarters."

ALFRED AUSTIN.

BOOKS ABOUT MUSIC.

Music as an agency of culture meets with adequate recognition in a little volume of essays by O. B. Boise entitled "Music and Its Masters" (Lippincott). This writer treats of the nature and origin of music, of the conditions under which it has been and may yet be developed, and of what is comprehended in the phrase "musical intelligence." The amateur should be enabled to gain from Mr. Boise's papers a clearer conception of the claims of music as an art, while the professional musician may well profit from such a review of the principles to which his calling owes its existence.

More elementary in style and method and more specific as an historical record is "The Story of the Art of Music," by Frederick J. Crowest (Appleton). This is a concisely written sketch, non-technical so far as possible, and well adapted to the wants of the general reader. In order to cover the allotted ground in the restricted space of 180 small pages, the author was compelled to treat some topics cursorily, but his chapters are interesting, though condensed, and contain altogether an amazing amount of useful and solid information.

Mr. Daniel Gregory Mason's volume of studies, "From Grieg to Brahms" (New York: The Outlook Company), opens with a suggestive essay on "The Appreciation of Music," in which an attempt is made to impart to the reader a sense of the general movement of the art as a preparation for the study of individual composers and their work. Then follow critical and biographical studies of Grieg, Dvorák, Saint-Saëns, Franck, Tschal

kowsky, and Brahms, with an epilogue on "The Meaning of Music."

An interesting exposition of the Wagnerian cult is to be found in Mr. W. J. Henderson's "Richard Wagner: His Life and His Dramas " (Putnams). Following the biographical sketch with which this volume opens, there is a very readable attempt at analysis of Wagner's artistic aims. From this the author proceeds to a detailed study of each of the master's world-famous compositions. Records of first performances and other information relating to the production of the operas have been collected by Mr. Henderson with especial care.

The series of books included in "The Musician's Library" (Boston: Oliver Ditson Company) is intended to have literary as well as artistic quality. Each of the two volumes thus far issued in the series is far more than a mere collection of sheet music. "Fifty Mastersongs," edited by Henry T. Finck, is prefaced by admirable biographical sketches of the composers represented. As an introduction to "Forty Piano Compositions," by Chopin, Mr. James Huneker contributes a well-written though too brief study of the composer's career and works. It is to be hoped that the same high level may be maintained in later issues of this "library." In "The Music Lover's Library" (Scribners), the volume on "Choirs and Choral Music," by Arthur Mees, claims the special interest of amateurs on the broad ground that chorus singing is a sphere of public musical activity which now belongs legitimately to amateurs. Mr. Mees is the enthusiastic conductor of the New York Mendelssohn Glee Club. He knows the modern development of choral singing as well as any man, but he has also studied with exceptional care the beginnings and the history of the art. It would take a long and laborious search to acquire from other sources the information contained in this attractive little book.

For a somewhat fuller account of religious music, the student or general reader can do no better than to consult the volume on "Music in the History of the Western Church," by Prof. Edward Dickinson, of Oberlin College (Scribners). This work treats comprehensively of such topics as "Ritual and Song in the Early Christian Church," "The Liturgy of the Catholic Church," "The Ritual Chant of the Catholic Church," "The Development of Medieval Chorus Music," "The Rise of the Lutheran Hymnody," and many themes related to the development of modern church music.

SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.

The studies in Boston's immigrant population published several years ago in a volume entitled "The City Wilderness" have been supplemented by an investigation of conditions in the north and west end of Boston, conducted under the same auspices, and edited, like the former studies, by Mr. Robert A. Woods, the head of the South End House. The new volume is entitled "Americans in Process" (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.). All of the contributors to the work are residents and associates of the settlement over which Mr. Woods presides, and are experienced workers in this field. Until about fifteen years ago, the districts covered by the present study were inhabited chiefly by an Irish population. Since that time, there has been a large influx of Jews and Italians, and at the present time twenty-five different nationalities are represented in the district, including a large number of negroes. As an introduction to their presentation of contemporary conditions, the writers have reviewed the history of the metropolitan

section under consideration from pre-Revolutionary days. The chief value of the book lies in its clear-cut statements as to what is actually taking place at the present time in these densely populated city wards, and what is being done by various agencies in the way of bettering the social and religious conditions of the population. The dangers of the situation are not minimized, but the endeavor of the writers is to point out the most rational lines of effort on the part of the city as a whole in the task of Americanizing its new citizens. Judged by its externals, without a reading of more than its chapter-heads, "The Social Unrest," by John

Graham Brooks (Macmillan), might easily be set down in the category reserved for merely academic essays on the labor problem; but even the superficial reader soon discovers that this is in no sense a book compiled in a library from other books, nor one made up of the writer's personal opinions. In some cases, indeed, we should have preferred a fuller statement of the writer's own conclusions, but his main purpose has been, apparently, to make us see the matters in dispute between labor and capital in the light in which they stand out before the representative laborer and the representative capitalist, and to do this he presents the data acquired in conversation rather than from the more restrained utterances embodied in conventional printed statements. Thus, the attitude of the rank and file of "organized labor" toward socialism, and the reasons that the men themselves give for that attitude, are discussed by Mr. Brooks in a way that is particularly enlightening at this time, as a revelation of important facts hitherto but imperfectly understood. Mr. Brooks has been a close student of conditions in the anthracite mining region for the past eighteen years. The aims and achievements of unionism in the coal mines will be better appreciated by every one who reads his chapters. The book as a whole is nine of fresh and vital information-of matter that interests everybody.

In the historical series of "American Philanthropy of the Nineteenth Century," edited by Mr. Herbert S. Brown, Mr. Joseph Lee, of the Massachusetts Civic League, has written a suggestive little book entitled "Constructive and Preventive Philanthropy" (Macmillan). Mr. Lee has been for many years a keen observer of the modern philanthropic movement in its various phases, and his book is a useful summary of the significant tendencies in that movement, as well as a shrewd analysis of its underlying purpose. Besides outlining for the reader various philanthropic activities grouped under such heads as "Model Tenements," "Vacation Schools," "Playgrounds for Small Children," "Baths and Gymnasiums," "Model Playgrounds," "Outings," 'Boys' Clubs," and "Industrial Training," Mr. Lee has prefaced each chapter with an excellent list of references which may serve to guide the reader to fuller information on the several topics treated.

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"Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts" (London: Edward Arnold), by Thomas Holmes, a London police-court missionary, is an interesting contribution to sociology. The writer's long acquaintance with criminals has put him in possession of many facts of a personal nature which could not easily be obtained by a professional criminologist. His book is full of suggestions for all who have to do with the difficult problems connected with the custody and reformation of the delinquent classes.

The forestry movement was in need of just such a manual as has been provided by Dr. Bernhard E. Fernow in a volume entitled "Economics of Forestry" (Crowell). Works on forestry that are adapted to the needs of students and workers in this field have not been lacking, but the average citizen and publicist have not heretofore had ready access to any comprehensive statement of the economic basis of an American forestry policy. Such a statement is admirably set forth in Dr. Fernow's book. Besides the things directly interesting to the economist discussed in this volume, there is offered also an exposition of the technical details of the forester's art, and sufficient information of this kind is given to enable the reader to form an intelligent judgment as to the conditions and limitations under which this art can be practised. The concluding chapter of the book very conveniently sums up the successive stages of the forestry movement in the United States up to the present time.

The compendious two-volume work by M. Ostrogorski, entitled "Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties," as translated from the French by Frederick Clarke (Macmillan), will doubtless prove to some American readers a disappointment. Many will instinctively compare the work with Mr. Bryce's "American Commonwealth," and will perhaps hastily conclude that the author is a far less trustworthy student of American institutions than his distinguished predecessor, who, by the way, contributes a preface to the present work. It is to be remembered, however, that M. Ostrogorski has undertaken a very different task from the self-imposed one of Mr. Bryce. He has selected perhaps the most difficult problems in the political organizations of Great Britain and the United States, and has restricted his investigation to those particular problems. The advantage that the American student gains from reading a work of this character is the old one of being enabled to see ourselves as others see us." The first volume is devoted entirely to party organization and rovernment in Great Britain, while the second volume, con

sisting of nearly eight hundred closely printed pages, is required for a description of the caucus and convention system as it is operated in the United States. The writer's conclusions are far from optimistic. He finds innumerable defects in our American application of the electoral system. The party as we have it, "democratized in appearance only, has warped the spring of dem ocratic government by discouraging, through the formulism with which it is set up, the citizen's independence of mind, the energy of his will, and the autonomy of his conscience." He has a new method of political action to propose, that of special combinations for limited objects, doing away with the practice of permanent parties with power for their aim and end. Quite apart from the author's deductions and conclusions, his book is extremely valuable as the first systematic and full presentation of the actual workings of our American party system as such. The author's methods of investigation have been not at all those of the political theorist who is concerned to know the literal provisions of written constitutions, but rather those of the trained observer who has come to study our actual process of government rather than our formulas.

The volume entitled "The New Empire," by Brooks Adams (Macmillan), supplements the author's earlier books, "The Law of Civilization and Decay" and "America's Economic Supremacy," by applying the principles laid down in those works to the latest conditions of international growth. The interest of the present volume lies largely in the author's use of the inductive method. His belief in the influence of geographical conditions upon human destiny has led him to make constant reference to geographical data throughout his book. In fact, the whole work may be described as a new application of the laws of physical geography to political and social development.

International relations on the naval and political sides are discussed in the new volume of essays of Capt. A. T. Mahan, entitled "Retrospect and Prospect" (Boston: Little, Brown & Co.). These essays are in direct sequence to those of the author's previous volumes, "The Interest of America in Sea Power" and "The Problem of Asia." The topics treated in the present volume are "Conditions Determining the Naval Expansion of the United States," "The Influence of the South African War Upon the Prestige of the British Empire," "Motives to Imperial Federation," "Considerations Governing the Disposition of Navies," "The Persian Gulf and International Relations," and "The Military Rule of Obedience." There is included in this volume an appreciation of the late Admiral Sampson. In the series of "Handbooks of American Government" (Macmillan), Prof. William MacDonald contributes a volume on "The Government of Maine: Its History and Administration." While this volume follows the general plan of the series to which it belongs, there is sufficient elasticity in that plan to admit of a certain individuality of treatment in each volume of the series. In the present volume, the general reader who is not a citizen of Maine will find the chapters on "Education," "The Protection and Comfort of the State" (including a section on the prohibitory law), and "Revenue and Expenditure" of special interest.

Few books on finance use the term "funds" excepting in relation to public affairs. Some misapprehension may therefore arise from the title of Dr. Frederick A. Cleveland's new work, "Funds and Their Uses" (Appleton), for in this book it is the field of private

finance that is covered rather than the operations of governments. Looking upon the subject of private finance as one which has to do with the getting and the spending of funds for private enterprises, Dr. Cleveland has grouped his materials around three central ideas-namely, (1) "What Are Funds?" (2) "How Funds Are Obtained;" and (3) "Institutions and Agencies Employed in Funding Operations." In his introductory chapters, Dr. Cleveland discusses the various forms of money and credit used as funds, and the means of transfer of credit funds. Passing to an exposition of how funds are obtained, the author divides modern funding methods into two classes: (1) those of the industrially and socially dependent, and (2) those of the industrially and socially independent, that is, those who depend on the active participation in business. The concluding chapter of the work is given to descriptions of each of the leading financial institutions, from the United States Treasury and the various forms of banks and trust companies to the modern insurance company.

A new field is entered and explored by Mr. Alexander Colin Campbell in his volume on "Insurance and Crime" (Putnam). This writer attempts a discussion of insurance as a producer of morbid conditions in society. While the writer believes in the warning of history against the danger of the practice of insurance, he is far from decrying insurance itself. On the contrary, he regards it as an 'invaluable element in social life.' From his point of view, it is all the more necessary that any source of evil connected with insurance as an institution should be removed.

AMERICAN HISTORY.

In "Ohio and Her Western Reserve" (Appletons), Mr. Alfred Mathews tells the story of that part of the State of Ohio that was settled by colonists from Connecticut, many of whom had come to the new land of promise from Pennsylvania, where they had endured many hardships and suffered the utmost terrors of Indian warfare in the Wyoming massacre during the Revolutionary War. All of these horrors of pioneer life are chronicled by Mr. Mathews; but the chief value of his book lies in its account of the transplanting of New England Puritanism to its new Western home south of Lake Erie, and various successive steps by which those elements of Statehood contributed by the Connecticut settlers were wrought out and made a part of the body politic of that sturdy Western State which is this year celebrating its centenary. The contributions of the Western Reserve to the civil life of the State and nation were indeed remarkable, as Mr. Mathews' book very convincingly shows.

Mrs. Alice Morse Earle's "Sundials and Roses of Yesterday" (Macmillan) admirably supplements her book of last year, entitled "Old-time Gardens." Mrs. Earle has for many years been a diligent collector of sundials, and of information and materials relating to them, including books on dialing, old and new, drawings and photographs of dials, and, not less important, a large correspondence with dial-owners. The great number and variety of the dials photographed for this volume will be a revelation to those who have not made a special study of this interesting subject. The interest in dials would seem to be as persistent in this country as in England. Many of the most beautiful illustrations in Mrs. Earle's book are from American originals.

"Social Life in the Early Republic," by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (Lippincott), is an attempt to portray the social evolution of the national capital in the early years of the last century. The Washington of those days as described by Miss Wharton was the seat of a society more typically republican than that of contemporary New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. It has been Miss Wharton's aim to obtain from such men and women as have lived down to our own times, and were part of the Washington life of the early nineteenth century, pictures of the social life of the capital as it appeared to them. Miss Wharton has also made a study of the old country-seats in and about Washington. Pictures of several of these old mansions accompany the text, and there are also many portraits of the social leaders of early Washington.

The fashionable life of pre-Revolutionary New York is well described in a beautifully illustrated volume by Esther Singleton, entitled "Social New York Under the Georges" (Appletons). In this volume, the humble side of old Dutch life in Manhattan has been neglected, the author's aim being rather to exhibit the manners and customs of the wealthy families who lived in and about the town during the Georgian age of English administration, from 1714 to 1776. Much attention has been given by the author to the famous country-seats of those times, and in illustrating the volume many articles of furniture still owned by prominent New York families are pictured. There are chapters on table furnishings, the costumes of men, the dress of women, amusements and manners, food, and culture.

Few American towns or cities rejoice in so full a record of their history as has been provided for Enfield, Conn., by a loyal son of the town, Mr. Francis Olcott Allen (Lancaster, Pa.: Published by the author). In three portly volumes, comprising nearly three thousand neatly printed pages, we have the whole story of this ancient Connecticut valley community, so far as the official records (exceptionally complete, even for a New England town) can give it. In a strict sense, such works as this are not histories, but they furnish the very warp and woof of the materials out of which all history that is to have any permanent value must be made, and it was nothing less than a patriotic impulse that actuated the compiler of these volumes. If similar work could be done for all of our early colonial settlements whose public records are extant, what a richness of material would be available for the historian, who will in the future be more than ever dependent upon such sources as these for a working knowledge of our national origins! We trust that Mr. Allen's example in editing and publishing this work will be followed in an equally generous fashion in the case of many other American communities.

Volume XVI. of the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin is entirely devoted to the French régime in Wisconsin. The volume is made up of translations from original documents in the French language, including much material from the government archives of Paris. The early explorations of the Jesuit missionaries and the enterprising French fur traders, together with migrations in the wars of the native Indian tribes, are fully and vividly narrated. The material is presented in chronological order. It covers the period 1634 to 1727; but as the French régime did not enter until 1663, it is probable that at least another volume will be devoted to the same subject.

Abolitionists, Two, Reminiscences of (Stephen S. and Abby
Kelley Foster), Lillie B. C. Wyman, NEng.
Abyssinian Question and Its History, G. F. H. Berkeley,
NineC.

Aesthetic Categories, Genesis of the, J. H. Tufts, Phil.
Africa, East, Ancient Commerce with, J. D. Murphy, ACQR.
Africa, North, Gleams of Light in, E. McAuliffe, Ros.
Agriculture, United States Government and, NatGM.
Alaska, Hunting the Big Game of-II., J. H. Kidder, O.
Alaska, Southwestern, Christmas in, J. M. Shawhan, Over,

December.

Allen, Ethan: In His Country, J. Ralph, Harp.
Almaden Mine, Romance of the, S. E. Moffett, Cos.
Alpine Climbing, Perils of, R. Davidson, Mun.

Alps as Industrial Forces, L. Houllevigue, RPar, December 15.

Americanists, International Congress of, C. W. Currier, Cath.

Amphitheater, Roman, Sports of the, D. O. S. Lowell, Mun. Andorra, Republic of, Revue, January 1.

Animals, Spontaneous Mutilation Among, A. Dastre, RDM,
January 1.

Apollonius of Tyana, T. Whittaker, Mon.
Apologetic, Need of a New, W. P. Merrill, Bib.
Apple, The Real, and Where to Find It, CLA.

Arbitration, Authoritative: Is It Inevitable? J. B. Clark,
PSQ, December.

Architecture:

Country Home, Making of a-XI., H. D. Binkerd, CLA. Mitchell, Arnold, Recent Designs by, H. P. G. Maule, IntS.

New York Chamber of Commerce, A. C. David, Arch.
Summer Homes at East Hampton, L. I., C. de Kay, Arch.
Arctic Circle, Sport in the, W. H. Ballou, Mun.
Arctic Ice, Hunting on the, R. E. Peary, FrL.
Army:

Canteen: Why It Should be Restored, L. L. Seaman, NAR.
Degradation of the Army, B. O. Flower, Arena.
Horse, Letters to a New Captain of, M. F. Steele, JMSI.
Manoeuvres at Fort Riley, A. L. Wagner, JMSI.
Moral Preparation of the Soldier,-A Symposium, JMSI.
Officers, Education and Training of, W. M. Black, JMSI.
Regular Army, A Day in the, H. M. Higday, WW.
Rifle, Lack of Small Arm Experts and of Interest in the,
T. H. Low, JMSI.

Arnold, Benedict-Naval Patriot, J. R. Spears. Harp.
Art:

Armor of the Wallace Collection, G. F. Laking, AJ.
Artists, A Modern Guild of, W. L. Harris, Cath.

Arts and Crafts Movement, Economics of the, R. F.
Zueblin, Chaut.

Barbizon School in the United States, N. H. Moore, Chaut.
Bramley, Frank, and His Work, C. Hiatt, MA, December.
Chicago's Fifteenth Annual Art Exhibition, J. F. Buell, BP.
Christmas in Art, R. de La Sizeranne, RDM, December 15.
City, The Furnishing of a, J. Schopfer, Arch.
Constable, John, G. D. Leslie and F. A. Eaton, AJ.
Decorative Art Exhibition at Turin, IntS.
Furniture, German Art, MA, December.

Galliéra Museum, Paris, C. Fromentin, Arch.

German and Netherlander: Their Guilds and Art, Irene Sargent, Crafts.

Glass in Art and Decoration, W. Schroeder, Over, December.

Guthrie, James, G. Aikman, AJ.

Gysis, Nicolas: A Greek Painter, D. Caclamanos, IntS. Hogarth, F. T. Cooper, Bkman.

Homer, Winslow, Crayon Studies by, W. W. Cole, BP.
Hyde, Helen, Colored Etchings of, Julia E. Elliott, BP.
Impressionism: The Nineteenth Century's Distinct Con-
tribution to Art, H. G. Stephens, BP.

Industrial Art, A School of, O. L. Triggs, Crafts.
Japan, Painters of-II., A. Morrison, MonR.

Lloyd's Registry: A Modern Palace of Art-II., MA, December.

Lomax, John A., Romantic Pictures of, H. W. Bromhead, AJ.

London, Back-Window Prospects in, W. A. S. Benson, AJ. London's Oldest Art Club, A. Lawrence, Harp.

Madonna Pictures, Greek, in California, Eva V. Carlin, OutW, December.

Mithraic Art, F. Cumont, OC.

Nast, Thomas, E. Knaufft, AMRR.

Nettleship, J. T.: Animal Painter, MA, December.
Painting, R. Sturgis, Forum.

Panels in Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Hall, R. de Cordova, Str.

Porcelain as Made in Its Native Land, W. N. Brewster,
Crafts.

Portrait-Sculpture Through the Ages, C. Phillips, AJ.
Potter, A Sculptor as, Louise C. Chard, Crafts.

Robbe, Manuel: An Etcher in Colors, G. Mourey, IntS.
Roche, Pierre, Sculptor, J. M. P. Honson, Arch.
Sandham, Henry: His Work in the Azores, W. Jenkins,
IntS.

Schools, Art in, Katherine Louise Smith, Crafts.
Sistine Madonna, Story of the, J. C. Van Dyke, LHJ.
Spence, T. R., Work of, F. H. Jackson, MA, December.
ersailles, What M. de Nolhac has Done at, Crit.
Astronomical Phenomena During 1903, PopA.
Atlantic Steamships of To-day, E. F. Naulty, Era.
Austen, Jane, Novels of, Annie Gladstone, NineC.
Authors' Rights, E. Quet, Nou, December 15.
Automobiling: Emergencies on the Road, J. D. Wright, O.
Bacon-Shakespeare Question, New Facts Relating to the,
W. H. Mallock, PMM.

Banking in Great Britain and Ireland During 1902, BankL. Banking Reform in the United States, W. R. Lawson, BankL.

Baptismal Formula of the Apostolic Age, R. J. Cooke,
MethR.

Battle-Ship of the Future, L. Nixon, WW.
Bequerel Rays, J. J. Thomson, Harp.

Beef Prices, Advance in, F. C. Croxton, AMRR.
Beerbohm, Max, W. W. Whitelock, BB.

Berlin, British at the Gates of, H. W. Wolff, Mac.
Bible, A Spiritual Book, T. F. Wright, NC.

Bible, American Revised Version of the, J. C. Granbery,
Meth.

Bible-School Method, Some Principles of, G. W. Pease, Bib.
Biblical Law: Primogeniture, D. W. Amram, GBag.
Birds, A Few Winter, E. J. Sawyer, CLA.
Björnson, Björnstjerne, J. N. Laurvik, Crit.
Bodleian Library: 1602-1902, A. Birrell, Out.
Bonney, Mrs. Lydia Pratt, P. Carus, OC.
Books, American, Dial, January 1.

Books, Miniature, of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, H. T. Sheringham, Bl.

Boston's Playground System, J. Lee, NEng.
Botanical Garden, Missouri, W. Trelease, PopS.
Bowdoin College and Her Sons, G. T. Little, Mun.

Bowen, Herbert: An International Figure of the Month,
AMRR.

Boys, Some Physical Abnormalities of, W. T. Talbot, Ed.
Brown, John, of Harper's Ferry, W. Stevens, LeisH.
Browning, Robert, P. H. Wicksteed, Contem.
Bruno-Monk, Philosopher, Seer, Martyr, F. H. Wright,
MethR.

Brussels Sugar Convention, T. Lough, Contem; E. Maraini,
NA, December 1.

Building, Office, Biography of an, A. Goodrich, WW.
Caine, Hall, as I Know Him, G. B. Burgin, YW.
California: Mountains and Valleys of Yuba County, Caro-
line M. Olney, Over, December.

California, The Life Informal in, J. W. Tompkins, O.
California: The Right Hand of the Continent-VII., C. F.
Lummis, OutW, December.

California: Tulare County, G. A. Barry, OutW, December. California: Ventura County, Harriet H. Barr, Out W, De

AMRR.

Cavalry, Future Rôle of, E. Wood, USM.
Caverns, Freezing, T. E. James, Pear.

Cements, Military Tests of, J. E. Howard, JMSI.
Chamberlain, Joseph, J. S. McNeill, FrL.
Chantey-man, The, H. P. Whitmarsh. Harp.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte de, A. I. du P. Coleman, Crit.
Chicago City Council, Regeneration of the, G. C. Sikes, Chaut.
Child, Moral Training of a-III., E. H. Griggs, LHJ.
Child, The Right of the. Ida H. Harper, NÄR.

Children's Books That Have Lived, C. Welsh, BL.

China, A New Englander in (Gen. Frederick T. Ward), F. A. Gannon, NEng.

China: Educational Edicts of 1901, C. M. Lacey-Sites, EdR.